Papers

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a. Journal Articles

Boczkowski, P. (2010). The divergent online news preferences of journalists and readers. Communications of the ACM, 55(11), 24-26.

Boczkowski, P., & Mitchelstein, E. (in press). Is there a gap between the news choices of journalists and consumers? A relational and dynamic approach. The International Journal of Press/Politics. (Acceptance date: March 2010.)

Boczkowski, P., & Peer, L. (in press). The choice gap: The divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers. Journal of Communication. (Acceptance date: February 2010.)

Boczkowski, P. (in press). The consumption of online news at work: Making sense of emerging phenomena and rethinking existing concepts. Information, Communication & Society. (Acceptance date: January 2010.)

Mitchelstein, E., & Boczkowski, P. (2010). Online news consumption research: An assessment of past work and an agenda for the future. New Media & Society.

Mitchelstein, E., & Boczkowski, P. (2009). Between tradition and change: A review of recent research on online news production. Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 10 (5), 562-586.

Boczkowski, P (2009). Rethinking hard and soft news production: From common ground to divergent paths. Journal of Communication, 59, 98-116.

Featured in Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend’s "Research Reports" column, Columbia Journalism Review (2010).

Boczkowski, P. (2009). Technology, monitoring and imitation in contemporary news work. Communication, Culture & Critique, 2, 39-59.

Boczkowski, P., & de Santos, M. (2007). When more media equals less news: Patterns of content homogenization in Argentina’s leading print and online newspapers. Political Communication, 24, 167-190.

Spanish version (abridged and less technical): Boczkowski, P. (2007). Más publicación, menos noticias. In B. Díaz Nosty (Ed.) Medios de comunicación – Tendencias 07: El escenario Iberoamericano (pp. 300-303). Madrid, Spain: Ariel.

Boczkowski, P., & Ferris, J. (2005). Multiple media, convergent processes and divergent products: Organizational innovation in digital media production at a European firm. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 597, 32-47.

Boczkowski, P. (2004). The mutual shaping of technology and society in videotex newspapers: Beyond the diffusion and social shaping perspectives. The Information Society, 20, 255-267.

Boczkowski, P. (2004). The processes of adopting multimedia and interactivity in three online newsrooms. Journal of Communication, 54, 197-213.

Boczkowski, P. (1999). The mutual shaping of users and technologies in the Argentine Mailing List. Journal of Communication, 49, 86-108.

2001 The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology, Media Ecology Association.
1997 Hacker - Mullins Award, Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology, American Sociological Association.
1996 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Sociology and Computers, American Sociological Association.

Boczkowski, P. (1999). Understanding the development of online newspapers: Using computer-mediated communication theorizing to study Internet publishing. New Media & Society, 1, 101-126.

1998 Top Three Student Paper, Communication and Technology Division, International Communication Association.

Boczkowski, P. (1996). From text to hypertext: Technologies, metaphors, and the social construction of family therapy. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 15, 59-79.

Boczkowski, P., Das Neves, F., & Rossi, G. (1993). On the relationships between hypermedia and the psychotherapeutic process. In G. Salvendy (Ed.), Human-computer interaction: Hardware and software interfaces, vol. 19B (pp. 476-481). New York: Elsevier.

b. Book Chapters

Boczkowski, P. (in press). On the wisdom of ignorance: Knowledge and the management of contemporary news organizations. In Deuze, M. (ed.), Managing media work. London: Sage. (Acceptance date: December 2009.)

Boczkowski, P. (2009). Newspaper culture and technical innovation: American newspapers approach their digital future, 1980 – 2005. In W. Russell Neuman (Ed.) Media, technology and society: The challenges of digital convergence. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Boczkowski, P. (2009). Materiality and mimicry in the journalistic field. In B. Zelizer (Ed.), The changing faces of journalism (pp. 56-67). New York: Routledge.

Boczkowski, P., & Lievrouw, L. (2007). Bridging STS and communication studies: Scholarship on media and information technologies. In O. Amsterdamska, E. Hackett, M. Lynch & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The handbook of science and technology studies, third edition (949-977). Cambridge: MIT Press.

Boczkowski, P. & Orlikowski, W. (2004). Organizational discourse and new media: A practice perspective. In D. Grant, C. Hardy, C. Oswick, N. Philips and L. Putnam (Eds.), The handbook of organizational discourse (pp. 359-377). London: Sage.

2003 Top Three Paper, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association.

Boczkowski, P. (2002). The development and use of online newspapers: What research tells us and what we might want to know. In L. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (Eds.), The handbook of new media (pp. 270-286). London: Sage.

c. Book Reviews

Boczkowski, P. (2004). Books to think with. New Media & Society, 6 (1), 144-150.

Boczkowski, P. (1996). Review of Carl Mitcham’s Thinking through technology: The path between engineering and philosophy. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 21, 366-369.

d. Papers Under Review

Boczkowski, P., Mitchelstein, E., & Walter, M. Convergence across divergence: Understanding the gap in the online news choices of journalists and consumers in Western Europe and Latin America. Under second round of review. (Date of submission: May 2010.)

Boczkowski, P. Mitchelstein, E., & Walter, M. The prosumption practices of monitorial citizens: Accounting for the most commented stories on leading online news sites during and after the U.S. 2008 Presidential Election. Under first round of review. (Date of submission: May 2010.)

Boczkowski, P., Mitchelstein, E., & Walter, M. When burglar alarms sound, do monitorial citizens pay attention to them? The online news choices of journalists and consumers during and after the 2008 U.S. election cycle. Under first round of review. (Date of submission: April 2010.)

Siles, I., & Boczkowski, P. At the intersection of materiality and meaning: Rethinking the role of agency in the use of communication technologies. Under first round of review. (Date of submission: March 2010.)